It took me about 7 hours and 30 minutes to complete the main campaign while finding roughly 60% of the extras like trophies, collectables, and Legendary Climbs. I can’t say the story really grasped me-I completely missed why the protagonist and his brother are at odds with one another-but at least it’s all well delivered and ties the gameplay together.
Some of the game’s levels also have optional (and sometimes hidden) ‘Legendary Climbs’, which are longer climbing segments that usually lead you to another awesome view, and these feel like a good reason to replay a level if you didn’t find them the first time around.Ĭall of the Mountain is a fun adventure with tons of VR native gameplay taking place inside one of the best looking virtual worlds seen in VR to date.
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It’s a shame they aren’t more involved in the game because they’re so technically compelling.Įven if you’re full on arrows though, the game still peppers its pathways with little collectibles to find for those who are looking more closely at the world around them, as well as hidden targets for you to shoot (which I appreciate because this gives players another good reason to take in the environment at large). Although there’s unfortunately minimal character development and intrigue, the characters themselves are impressively rendered across the board, from the way they look to the way they move to the way they sound. While Call of the Mountain is a linear adventure, you’ll return to a hub area between missions where you’ll get to talk to the game’s small cast of characters. That’s compounded by the fact that the game provides the player with more than enough resources to usually have their special arrows maxed out-which further meant that actually finding those resources didn’t feel very exciting. That’s especially strange considering the game allows you to craft several different arrow types (like fire and ice), but all of them essentially just felt like extra damage rather than a strategic choice. For the most part you just need to keep lobbing arrows down range. While it’s definitely fun to fight the fascinating machine creatures from the world of Horizon-thanks to their excellent looks and sounds-combat never felt particularly strategic to me. While I applaud the developers for building a unique and thoughtful combat system that’s specific to VR (and impressively comfortable, I should add), it could use a bit more refinement to really shine. Granted, I found it difficult to read and time the enemies’ melee attacks, and I didn’t feel like the ‘dodge’ mechanic (where you swing both your controllers to one side to do a quick strafe) worked particularly well. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing climbing in Call of the Mountain is well executed and creates perfect situations to showcase the game’s stunning environmental art.
While it’s obvious from the name that climbing would be part of the experience, I can’t say I realized that it would make up about 50-60% of the gameplay.
The first thing you should know about Horizon Call of the Mountain is that at its core, it’s a VR climbing game. Rest assured, the world of Horizon Call of the Mountain is quite vibrant! Publisher: Sony Interactive EntertainmentĮditor’s Note: The clips in this review that were captured from PSVR 2 do not look correctly saturated due to incorrect HDR downmixing on our part. Does the title succeed? Read on to find out. With Horizon Call of the Mountain, Sony is hoping to have an exclusive big-budget VR game to entice players to the new PSVR 2.
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